Category: CASE STUDIES

The neighbours who are locked in a cladding nightmare: Sold the dream of home ownership, 1,346 leaseholders in one cluster of flats face bills of up to £40k EACH

• Neighbours living in a development in Manchester face bills of up to £40k each

• In the wake of Grenfell disaster, dangerous cladding was found on five blocks

• The young professionals are stuck in a fire traps and cannot sell their homes

• Now, The Daily Mail is campaigning to end the nationwide cladding scandal

Since the Grenfell disaster, which killed 72 people in June 2017, dangerous cladding has been found on a multitude of high-rise building stock throughout the United Kingdom. It is estimated that it may take over 10 years to repair this situation.

Ministers have set aside two funds worth a total of £1.6 billion to fix the problem, but MP’s expect the total cost to be closer to £15 billion.

 

RICS guidance aims to improve guidance to assist homebuyers and leaseholders who have safety concerns over cladding and the cost of remediation.

 

The guidance, entitled ‘Valuation of Properties in Multi-Storey, Multi-Occupancy Residential Buildings with Cladding’, will help by setting out a consistent position for valuers carrying out mortgage valuations on when EWS-1 Forms should be requested for buildings with cladding before valuing a property to avoid unnecessary delays.

 

Credit: MILES DILWORTH MONEY MAIL REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL

Original Article: Mail Online

 

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Our experiences, outcomes and findings

As a consequence of the above requirements, we have been engaged over the last 18 months by a selection of Local Authorities and Housing Associations. Our mission is to provide a 3D Digital Technology Solution which captures the external and internal fabrics of high-rise properties with minimal disruption.

 

Our journey has evolved through a series of Asset Management 3D survey projects involving a diverse range of large high-rise properties. This Asset information is essential for greater control, a better way of working, compliance, fire regulations, legislative changes (Hackitt Report) and stock condition management but also scalable as a solution for the entire property portfolio. Together, we have adopted the latest 3D photo scanning and BIM technologies using state of the art equipment, drone technology and professionally qualified Engineers.

 

Outcomes

Our customers have progressed rapidly to achieve the following outcomes:

The Civic Office Refurbishment scheme was a town centre development led by Epping Forest District Council, driven by economic development and community objectives. The scheme required provision of a 3D Digital Twin, in order for the Asset and Property Team to quickly visualise the FF&E Workplace Design prior to furniture procurement. This included COVID19 Space Planning, and workplace colour and texture selection using Dynamic 3D walkthroughs.

An internal review of office accommodation demonstrated that the Council is occupying, and consequently paying for, more space than it needs to accommodate the current and future organisational structure.  EFDC developed its Estate Strategy leading to the refurbishment of the Civic Offices in Epping.

The Civic Office refurbishment resulted in a new agile open-plan space to accommodate EFDC staff on much reduced desk to person ratio, as well as dedicated spaces for partner organisations, customers and visitors from the community. The refurbished space offers open-plan offices with breakout and collaboration spaces, and meeting rooms of various sizes – including a large conference facility and flexible conference and events area at the ground floor.

Threeday placed a Digital Team to deliver a 3D Digital Twin Model as well as the 2D floor plans.
The 3D Digital Model provided high resolution and detailed 3D virtual tours. 

 

The 3D Digital Twin was also used to demonstrate Smart Working ideas, such as intelligent furniture and interior design concepts.

Threeday utilised DynamicAIM for the duration of the project to provide online access to the 3D Digital Twin Model. This enabled EFDC stakeholders and suppliers to undertake reviews to discuss commercials, designs, furniture and colour schemes.

 

DynamicAIM enabled embedding, testing and costing of Smart Working technologies such as occupancy sensors, room booking and CAFM.

Senior Executives at EFDC were able to explore, visualise, cost and make informed decisions on the new workplace months ahead of the actual fit out.  

 

Value was added to the project by adopting DynamicAIM and also capturing 3D Scans of additional assets.

3D Asset Scanning for Stock Condition Surveys

 

In 2020, Hammersmith & Fulham Council experimented with 3D Photo scanning to survey a selection of high-rise buildings where 3D Photo scanning was included as part of the asset management team visits. The operation was budgeted in as part of the 4-year Compliance Capital Works programme with a prioritisation of surveying large high-rise building stock and also becoming compliant to the Hackitt Review. The 3D BIM scanning and additional asset information was hosted in a temporary 3D Digital Wrapper which could connect to the existing Technology Forge Property Asset Management Solution once the stock condition surveys were complete.

 

The objective was use new 3D tools to collect and reconcile asset data sets to overcome several historical problems including legislative changes, siloed information, disparate data sources and poor resident communication.

3D BIM/REVIT Surveying – building core and external infrastructure
Each building external and internal infrastructure was 3D Scanned into BIM producing a core Revit Model. Key assets were uploaded into the Revit Cobie data set. The concept being that this was a good start to evolving a full BIM/Revit Model for the buildings so that any new future project works to the building would involve adding new data to the core BIM/Revit Model. The core and external building infrastructure could be 3D BIM Surveyed with zero disruption to the residents and to LOD200 BIM standards.

3D BIM/Revit Model

3D BIM Photo Surveying – building internal spaces (flats, boiler rooms, lofts etc..)

Separately, and working beside the Stock Condition survey team a 3D Photo laser camera was used to capture the individual flats and key assets including white goods, smoke alarms, energy readings, fire doors and other information including the general condition such as damp spots, infestations etc. This was up-to-date enhanced data that would not currently appear on the current Property Asset Management solution

Successful outcomes included greater control of assets, a better way of working, a scalable solution, support of long-term plans, sharing of information with other organisations and being complaint with fire regulations and the Hackitt Report. Both the 3D BIM Revit and 3D Photo scans were consolidated into a single 3D confederated model which could standalone or link and refresh the Hammersmith & Fulham Asset Management Database.